Until I transfer over all my files, please visit them at their original home: http://bbutko.tripod.com/isaly.html or for more recent news, visit my Isaly’s Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/47741780632.

My books

Updated maps, info, and 100 different images are featured in Greetings from the Lincoln Highway, Centennial Edition. Click the cover to buy it now on Amazon.

Also in celebration of the Lincoln Highway Centennial in 2013 was The Lincoln Highway: Photos Through Time, which I wrote, designed, and produced for the LHA. Buy it from the LH Trading Post by clicking the cover.

Click the Diners of Pennsylvania cover to purchase our completely updated guide to the history, geography, and food of Pennsylvania’s beloved roadside eateries.

If you like Klondike bars, or remember Isaly’s, you’ll love Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly’s

I’ve published other books too, including Roadside Attractions and Roadside Giants.

I also edit and oversee projects for the Heinz History Center such as this new book, The Civil War in Pennsylvania: A Photographic History.

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Hi! And thank you for stimulating my interest in the Lincoln Highway. My significant other and I already have a copy of “The Lincoln Highway: Pennsylvania Traveler’s Guide (2nd ed.)” and I have begun to write about the highway this year on my own blog. I have a question. Just where exactly is the Lincoln Highway marker/sign in Times Square? I am going to Manhattan on Wednesday, May 1, for a meeting, and I would like to take a photo of the sign/marker.

Brian, Really nice book on the Lincoln Highway and great pictures. One clarification: page 121 on Dixon, IL, says that Reagan lived here from 1920-1923. Actually he lived in Dixon until he graduated from college and went off to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932. Also, the Dixon Welcome Center has a wonderful Lincoln Highway Interpretive Center, plus an outdoor kiosk has a 2nd Lincoln Highway display. Ann Lewis, Dixon, IL

Hi Brian! I’m a public media (PBS member station WHYY) producer working on a documentary about Delaware’s DuPont Highway. I wonder whether you or anyone you’ve come across in your travels and research might be a fit for our show. Mind dropping me a line at dburrows@whyy.org, or giving me a call at 856.287.9098?

My grandfather used to own the Isaly’s at Great Western, on West Broad Street, Columbus Ohio. He is 87 and I have been trying to find photos of the restaurant. I have found articles, but not a single photo?? Can you help?

Brian, Thank you! I received the The Story of Isaly’s as a gift. You see, I am an “Isaly”. We still reside in Monroe County, Ohio where Verona and Christian Isaly settled. Your book had me digging out my family tree and tracing all the Isalys mentioned in the book. Thanks for taking me back!
Jill (Isaly) Schumacher